Improvement in hat-pouncing- machines



SIDNEY S. WHEELER, OF DANBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO EDWARD A. NICHOLS, OF YONKERS, NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 94,158, dated August 24, 1869. I

IMPRovEMENT 'In HAT-PoUNcmG MACHINES.

` The Schedule'referred to in these Letters Patent making part of the same.

To all whom 'it may 'concern Be it known that I, SIDNEY S. WHEELER, of Danbury, in the county o f Fairfield, and State of Connecticnt, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat-Pouncing Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and correct description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference thereon.

My improvements relate to that class of hat-ponncing machines in which a quick-cutting rotating cylinder or cone is applied to a hat-body placed upon a slowly-rotating hat-block.

The object of my invention to apply a rapidly-Y The first part of my invention consists in combining,

with the rotating hat-block and pouncing-cylinder, a jointed arm or frame, substantially as hereinafter described, which carries the rotating ponncing-cylinder or cone, and is provided with asuitable handle, whereby the operator can lapply the rotating pouncing-cylinder to anypart of the hat placed upon the hat-block;A

second, in combining, with the jointed arm, carrying the ponncing-cylinder, a connterbalancing weight, to relieve the operator from the weight of the jointed arm. A

But in order to more particularly describe my invention, I will refer to the accompanying drawings, of'

which- Figure lis a side elevation, and

Figure 2 a plan viewof the machine.

Letter a represents the frame of the machine; I), the hat-block, mounted upon a horizontal spindle, rotating in fixed bearings l1* 112, and carrying a pulley, b3, drivenby a belt, b, (iig. 1,) from any suitable pulley, on a countershaft overhead.

. The `jointed arm or frame c is pivoted horizontally upon the .centre-pins cl o?, and counterbalanced by the weight el, suspended from the bent arm d1, so that the operator can move it up or down with a slight exertion of force applied to the handle e.

The hinge-joint f enables thearm to be moved laterally, that is, horizontally, toward and from-the hatbl'ock, and the swivel-joint g enables the forked part of the arm, which carries the emery-covered poun'cingcylinder or cone h, to be turned around at pleasure, so as to present the rotating ponncing-surface, at any desired angle of inclination, to the axis of the hat-block.

. The pouncing-cylinder or emery-covered cone h is mounted on a short spindle, which rotates in bearings h h2 in the forked part ofthe jointed arm, and carries a pulley, t, driven by a nelt, j, from awide pulley, k,

fast to a shaft which rotates in fixed bearings k1 k2, and carries a driving-pulley, k3, to which power may be applied by a belt, as usual in machinery.'

Vhen not in use, the jointed arm may rest upon the curved bracket-support m.

In operating the machine, the yoperator places the hat upon the rotating hat-block, and, taking hold of the handle of thev jointed arm, applies the rotating pounoing-snrface to the tip and sides of the hat at pleasure, until the operation is completed to his satisfaction.

I claim as of my invention and improvement in machines for ponncing hats- The employment of the horizontal double-hinged and swivelled arm or frame, which carries the rotating pouncing-cylinderor cone, in combination with a horizontal rotating hat-block and the pouncing-cylinder or cone, substantially as described.

2. In combination with the hinged arm and potluciug-cylinder, a countei'balancing weight, or its equivalent, substantially as described.

' SIDNEY4 S. WHEELER.

lW itnesses:

l. W. Sommes, E. A. MALLORY. 

